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Tis the season and all that rot. Oh, I’m not a Grinch. Anything but. Look! I bring you eye candy.
Johnny Depp makes me little old heart go piddy paddy like it used to back in the day when life was all before me.
He has been called upon to grace the cover of Vanity Fair once again. Along with an interview which you can read in part here, there is a lovely series of photos of the gorgeous one for you to warm your heart by. Do indulge. I won’t tell a soul.
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If you would prefer eye candy of a different species, then drop over to Roger Ebert’s blog. His blogs are consistently fun to read and thoughtful as well. This one is about dogs and he shows you a goodly number of photos of our canine friends, done by a terrific photographer. A link to the work of Tim Flach, and his latest book. The pictures are simply stunning and worth the trip over.
Here is my favorite, just to whet your appetite:
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The University of Maryland does a polling of what media outlets people watch and how much they know about current events. Does it surprise anyone that the more people watch, the more they know? And does it surprise anyone that there is one major exception to this rule? And that the major exception is Fox. People who watch Fox are stunningly, I mean stupendously the most mis-informed of all people polled.
Think Progress has the numbers. I mean they aren’t just a few points more ignorant; they are massively so. Fox has a captive audience here, convinced that they can’t trust anyone else, and so Fox simply indoctrinates them at will. We’ve shown you the evidence of that in regards the Health Care law and their use of “government option” and on climate change and their caveat to that there is serious disagreement by “many” scientists.
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This one can’t come as any surprise either. PolitFact has just released it’s listing of the Lie of the Year and all the runners-up. You can assume that Republicans carry the day, because Relieacans do it better than just about anybody. John, Orange Juice, Boehner, won the 1st place slot. Other notables are Michele, spinner-eye, Bachmann, and Johnny, I just hate everybody, McCain.
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I don’t know who Doug Bean is, but he seems to know of what he speaks: namely game hunting. And he watched Sarah’s gushy love affair with self, known as Sarah Palin’s Alaska. More pertinently, he watched the caribou hunt. And, he was appalled. She ain’t, it seems, any hunter he’s ever seen. She’s a con job all the way. Read his analysis of her “style”. Me thinks that Ms. Media has perhaps over-extended herself and the true Sarah is starting to emerge: a fraud of the major proportions.
And to make matters worse: new polling by the Washington Post and ABC, show that those who would vote for Palin for Prez are eight percent. Oh please, please ego maniac lady, run, run, run. Make our collective day!
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The Contrarian, looking out over the frozen tundra of Iowa, said, “I’ll find you one day, standing at the window, with a tear in your eye as you look out at the desert sands of New Mexico, missing the beauty of a white sparkling winter’s day.”
“I doubt that,” I moaned, as I stared bleakly at the thermometer outside, registering an icy 3°. “I seriously doubt that.”
In my head, I live in Hawai`i. I walk the beach each day, and watch the surf, sitting with an iced tea and my lap top, a book of choice. The dogs frolic. The Contrarian waves from the deck. I reach through sunglassed eyes, for more sunscreen. I close my eyes, and . . . . WAKE UP IN A FREAKIN” FROZEN TUNDRA IN IOWA!
It works for a while. Do you live somewhere else in your head? Do tell.
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I can’t believe my luck. It turns out that my state’s representative here in Iowa is scheduled to be the new Speaker. And he is claiming he won’t oppose a move to impeach the remaining justices to our Supreme Court, for having the audacity to do their jobs of judicial review. This all about marriage equality in Iowa. I just sent him a temperate (mostly) e-mail making my position most clear and challenging him. I know these people know better, but if people of knowledge don’t speak up, then the misinformed and bigots among us win. The fight goes on.
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Well, it’s leftovers day! Hurrah! I made some biscotti this morning. Lovely and my favorite kind of breakfast food. See ya tomorrow.
Existential Ennui 
Ha! My daughter met Johnny Depp…They filmed quite a bit of Public Enemies in Town, parked most of the studio trailers right behind Oblio’s. Somewhere in my blog archives I have some photo’s of him. I met a bunch of the crew and some of the actors at the bar, too.
I seem to remember you mentioning that Jimmy. Now drag out those photos and download them, and post them immediately! lol…seriously. Immediately. NOW.
I’m not surprised that FOX News devotees are less informed than other viewers. I’ll even bet they’re banking on it.
With so many perspectives and so many stories, it pays to be a news hound and gather news from multiple sources.
Oh you can bet they do count on their followers watching nobody else. They are so sure of it that they can with utter impunity lie at will. When exposed, the care not one whit, because none of their sheeple will ever know. They’ve taught them to not watch anyone else. Pathetic.
Hm, I think the Contrarian has been watching too much Fox News. I hate to be the one to break it to him, and he may launch a protest against me with many badly-spelled signs, but he really needs to know: It snows in New Mexican deserts. And the Arizona ones. And California’s.
Also, I feel it my duty as a patriot — yes, despite being brown and native to the southwestern u.s. — to explain that gazing out upon desert sands in 110-degree summer heat absolutely, positively will make you pine for snow. Sleet, even. Frost, at least.
You are correct in sticking with Hawai’i. Although certain persons may accuse you of becoming a terrorist Muslim Kenyan and demand to see your birth certificate.
Whatever it is Blisterina, it can’t be as cold and rotten as here, which is not as bad as MN or WY or MT, but still. We have had temps not past about 25 for about 2 weeks. It’s so tiresome dressing in layers in the house. I’m heading south as soon as possible!
Would love to do Hawai`i, but unfortunately the cost of everything is just to high for us to manage. You end up living in a crummy apt. far from the beach. If I ever hit the lottery (which would require me to play it, which I don’t) then I’m gone! lol